Crossword clues for briton
briton
- Man from Manchester
- Yorkshireman, e.g
- Worcestershire woman, e.g
- United Kingdom native
- United Kingdom citizen
- Oxonian, for example
- Native of the Commonwealth
- Native of London
- Native of Leeds or Dover
- London native, e.g
- Inhabitant of England, perhaps
- Cymric Celt, e.g
- Cantabrigian or Londoner
- Any Beatle, say
- An Englishman
- "Mate," usually
- Londoner, e.g.
- Lion and unicorn wearer
- Whom John Bull symbolizes
- Tony Blair, for one
- A native or inhabitant of Great Britain
- An inhabitant of southern Britain prior to the Anglo-saxon invasions
- Cockney, e.g.
- Englishman
- English native
- One of Her Majesty's subjects
- Cymric Celt, e.g.
- Citizen's cross leaving prison
- UK citizen leaving centre of South Coast town
- Londoner, e.g
- Cockney, e.g
- Londoner or Liverpudlian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Briton \Brit"on\, a. [AS. bryten Britain.]
British. [Obs.]
--Spenser. -- n. A native of Great Britain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Anglo-French Bretun, from Latin Brittonem (nominative Britto, misspelled Brito in MSS) "a member of the tribe of the Britons," from *Britt-os, the Celtic name of the Celtic inhabitants of Britain and southern Scotland before the 5c. Anglo-Saxon invasion drove them into Wales, Cornwall, and a few other corners. In 4c. B.C.E. Greek they are recorded as Prittanoi, which is said to mean "tattooed people." Exclusively in historical use after Old English period; revived when James I was proclaimed King of Great Britain in 1604, and made official at the union of England and Scotland in 1707.
Wikipedia
Britons are nationals or natives of the United Kingdom.
Briton or Britons may also refer to:
- Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group
- The Britons, an English antisemitic organization
- Britons, nickname of the Albion College sports teams
Usage examples of "briton".
Upon that Commission the interested nations, that is to say--putting them in alphabetical order--the Africander, the Briton, the Belgian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Italian, the Indian the Portuguese--might all be represented in proportion to their interest.
The Gauls, Aquitanians, and Britons, all possessing, as Csesar testifies, separate governments and different nationalities, regarded one another as distinct races.
We Britons did not recognize the title Bretwalda, but I used it to placate the Saxon chief.
AEsir who dominated Nemedia were called Nemedians, and later figured in Irish history, and the Nordics who settled in Brythunia were known as Brythunians, Brythons or Britons.
I will try the experiment some day, and put up one of the Britons against Asthor the Gaul, hands against the caestus, and see what comes of it.
But all this, war as well as peace, is a living together as equals, a thing which neither in peace nor war Rome could ever do with Celtiberian, Gaul, Briton, or German.
Conchessa and her elder sister to Calphurnius, a Briton of Clydesdale, as slaves.
The Cymric tribes of Britain were a mixed Nordic-Cimmerian race which preceded the purely Nordic Britons into the isles, and thus gave rise to a legend of Gaelic priority.
As usual, they were a mix of all races, though with a distinct Asian and African cast, here: Ethiops dark as night and brawny Nubians even darker, and fiat-faced fair-skinned Circassians and Avars and other sinewy northern folk, and some who might have been Persians or Indians, and even a sullen yellow-haired man who could have been a Briton or Teuton.
At Rome we heard but vague rumours that Suetonius had not yet overcome the final resistance of the Britons, and glad we were when Petronius was sent out to take his place, and we heard that gentler measures were to be used towards the Britons.
Turris Ordinis or Turris Ardens by the Romans, and Nemtor or Nemthur by the Armorican Britons.
To the British such a notion was overambitious, if not actually preposterous, since most Britons did not themselves enjoy such a lavish franchise.
Rosenheimer, a pudding-faced, but stanch young Briton of the old Pomeranian strain.
Erebus measured the distance with the eye of an expert, just as there came into the farther end of the hall that large, flabby, pudding-faced young Pomeranian Briton, Mr.
The excited young Pomeranian Briton, taking in his age and size at a single glance, shoved him aside with splendid violence.